Is Cuban Gooding Jr Cuban

Answer 1

Cuba Gooding Sr. (Jr's his father) is a son of Dudley MacDonald Gooding and his wife Addie Alston. The elder Gooding was a native of Barbados who fled the island in 1936 to Cuba, where he met and married a woman there. When she was murdered, Dudley Gooding promised his wife on her deathbed that he would name his first son Cuba. His father died when Cuba was only eleven years old. His grandmother was Cuban and his grandfather was Barbadian.